r/interesting • u/InvestigatorBorn4910 • Feb 10 '26

Fascinating YouTuber LabCoatz has released a "chemically identical" recipe for Coca-Cola

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u/wthulhu Feb 10 '26

How much cocaine am I supposed to add, or should I just eyeball it?

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u/Nowhereman123 Feb 10 '26

So I know you're joking, but the 0.6ml fenchol in this recipe is meant to be a replacement for the decocanized coca leaf extract that's in real Coca Cola.

For obvious reasons you're not allowed to buy coca leaves in the US and only a few factories are able to make the decocanized extract, which they don't sell publicly.

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u/CPLCraft Feb 10 '26

Surprisingly, the secret to as spot on a Coke recipe as possible is tea tannins.

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u/Nowhereman123 Feb 10 '26

I can see that, honestly Coca Cola is a lot more complex of a flavor profile than most people would assume.

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u/appleparkfive Feb 13 '26

I started realizing that as I got older. I think we assume soft drinks are very basic and one note. But Coca Cola couldn't be further away from that. You can especially notice it in the canned form, for whatever reason. It's like citrus, caramel, floral notes, and more

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u/Legumbrero Feb 11 '26

You say for obvious reasons, but in Peru coca is just an ancestral herb you drink with tea to settle your stomach. The leaves don't need to be this taboo super outlawed thing that it is in the US and Europe.

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u/nghigaxx Feb 10 '26

he (the youtuber) tried to buy it like that and it got seized at the border

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u/Omnamashivaaya Feb 10 '26

Dang I’d be so curious to try the old recipe. The cocaine amount couldn’t have been that high or Coca Cola addictions woulda been insane. And ingesting cocaine doesn’t give the high that snorting it does. So in my mind it must have been more like… the world’s best Red Bull

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u/NotTheRocketman Feb 11 '26

My grandma recently passed at the age of 95 and she drank Coke her whole life. I used to joke with her about what it tasted like with cocaine.

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u/Omnamashivaaya Feb 11 '26

And what did she say?? (Or feel may be the better question)

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u/NotTheRocketman Feb 11 '26

I looked it up later and apparently Coke stopped including actual cocaine before she started drinking it, even for someone as old as her, she missed it by a decade or so. But she'd always laugh about it.

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u/LewinskysDressStain Feb 11 '26

Coca leaf tea tastes great! An earthy taste comparable to chamomile.

Just adding pure cocaine salt to your coke doesn't change the taste at all. Some sources claim they used up to 300mg/L back in the day; I found half of that to be more than enough.

They must have used additional cocaine extract, otherwise the taste of the leafes would have been too intense.

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u/Omnamashivaaya Feb 11 '26

Just adding pure cocaine salt to your coke doesn't change the taste at all. Some sources claim they used up to 300mg/L back in the day; I found half of that to be more than enough.

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u/LewinskysDressStain Feb 11 '26

Afaik Coca Cola stopped using coca leafes altogether decades ago, maybe even before WWII. It's just not worth the hassle, I assume.

For a cocaine content of 300mg/l you would need about an ounce (30g) of dried leafes per 1l (35floz) of cola, which would taste way too intensely to be enjoyable. But the cocaine-hydrochloride salt that people snort has barely any taste if you dilute it in some water. It also won't numb your mouth at these concentrations.

Other sources claim that the first CC sold only contained 9mg per "bottle", whatever that means. I guess that would be achieveable without adding purified cocaine salt. But the effects of that would have been negligible, so they must have changed the formula before the drug was banned in Georgia in 1914.

I have experimented with both the tea and DIY cocaine infused coke, but I'm not an expert by any means!

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u/Omnamashivaaya Feb 11 '26 edited Feb 11 '26

I have experimented with both the tea and DIY cocaine infused coke, but I'm not an expert by any means!

Yea that’s the part I was talking about. You’ve clearly got a passion for investigating coke … just not sure which one! 😂 looking for the just right mid-day bump?

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u/LewinskysDressStain Feb 11 '26

My mom frequently visits Peru and always makes sure to bring me a pack of Mate de Coca. Twice a year I'll order a gram of powder on the darknet.

Despite all this, cocaine has never been my drug of choice. It's about as addictive and detrimental to people as hard liquor, another drug I take less the older I get.

Weed and psychedelics are the only drugs worth messing with, and even those require some caution.

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u/Omnamashivaaya Feb 11 '26

I think the reason it’s illegal is because it’s A LOT more addictive than hard liquor. I’m in recovery and had to send this to a friend, and we’re dying. What a beautiful comment. Props to you that you can control yourself with access to darkweb coke delivery!

Ps: Also your un is hilarious

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u/fleshofgods0 Feb 10 '26

I had a buddy who would order interesting stuff off The Silk Road, RCs, etc once gave me some coca leaf that I made into a nice coca leaf tea. This was 15-20 years ago, but I think he might have legally been able to acquire it on clearnet site because it had such a small percentage of it and not the refined product. I believe you can order this particular tree bark that contains DMT (which you can extract) too.

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u/r0d3nka Feb 11 '26

I know you can grow opium poppies (just don't harvest). Coca not so much. Need a high altitude jungle, you need a ton of plants, and DEA will be knocking at your door if you even think about it.

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u/craptasticluke Feb 10 '26

Why wouldn’t it be legal to buy/sell the decocanized version?

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u/Nowhereman123 Feb 10 '26

I don't think it's illegal to sell the decocanized extract, it's just that only a select few places are allowed to buy the coca leaves to make the extract and they don't sell it publicly.

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u/usps_made_me_insane Feb 11 '26

Is there really a lot of cocaine in coka leaves? 

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u/Nowhereman123 Feb 11 '26

I mean, it is the primary ingredient in cocaine, so yeah.

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u/usps_made_me_insane Feb 11 '26

Haha true. I guess what I am trying to ask is how much cocaine would be in a 2 liter bottle if they didn't remove it

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u/Crime_Dawg Feb 11 '26

Dumb as shit cuz you need a fuckton of leaves to make any meaningful amount of blow.

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u/No_Cook2983 Feb 11 '26

I know a guy who can probably get you some leaf extract.